The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, July 30, 1908, Image 3
» V JUST ONE OF THE MANY MURDERS BY "BOSSES.” j The present legislature is milk ing an effort to cheek the brutal, inhuman treatment of the convicts in this state, and before an inves tigation which wns made a tew j days ago an ex-convict made the | following statement,and if this in addition to all that is being told | in the Atlanta Georgian now-a-j days is one-hundredth part true, j whyfthen, we say the wrong gang is wearing stripes. From what we have heard of hades it must be a warm country, but we don’t l>e lievo it is any too hot for those ' heartless bosses, doctors, and es-: peeially those who went to so much trouble to prepare the Rules ' and frame them glass cover, j then never try to have them obeyed. Here is Cock ran’s story : “Cockran testified that he was on the state farm from August, 1903 to March of the next year, when he was sent to the Chatta hoochee brick yards where lie re mained until he was pardoned. He testified that there was excessive severity and cruelty practiced at both places; at the state farm un der Superintendent Foster and Captain Slater whipping boss, and nt. Chattahoochee, under Cap tain Casey. He told of a negro who wns ill being given twenty-five lashes and sent to work in the cotton fields, where he fell and later expired. Asked if the negroe’s name was Peter Harris, he replied that he could not remember. The witness had been suffering for several days with a carbuncle on his finger of his right hand. He* went to the hospital to have it lanced. The physician Dr. Fisher cursed him for being there be cause he appeared strong and healthy. Learning of his trouble he operated upon Cock ran’a linger cutting twice to the bone and scrapsng the bone. Witness wns given no annesthes in,and protest ed at the third incision.Dr.Fisher threatened to give hi in two lash es. Witness replied that he had the power to do that,but he asked that his finger lie not cut again. The whipping was not administer ed. At the same time there was in the hospital a negro. Dr. Fisher ordered him back to work. The negro protested that he was ill ami suffering. For his pains he was given 25 lashes with his punts down. Dr. Fisher cursed him and ordered him into the wagon with other laborers. He was too weak to get in and was thrown in and driven to the cotton fields, where he was ordered to pick cotton. The negro fell in the cotton rows and svas ordered to rise and re sume work. He could not, and Captain Slater, after cursing him, | commanded other negro convicts to raise him to his leet. They de clined, declaring they were afraid to touch him, as the man was dy- i ing. On gomg to him Captain . Slater saw bis real condition and ordered him removed from the field. The next day the witness Baw his dead body. , i He d eelared the man had not re fused to work, but begged and pleaded with the physician and whipping boss to be excused on account of bis weakness. Witness picked cotton oil the day of his operation with his left hand; his right paining him too much to use.’’ THIS WAS GEORGIA’S BANNER FRUIT YEAR Georgia’s banner fruit year has just about closed. The figures of the Central which handles more lrnit than all the other roads in Georgia combined show that du ring the season 4094 cars of peach es have been handled and 840 lor last year. The watermelons have filled 1945 nars and t' e cuiCh loupefl 247. The handling of these big crops lias pushed up the earnings of the Central to a very large extent during Jue and July. If no calamity licfalls it Mont gomery county will gather a tre mendous crop this fall. DR. LEN 6. BROUGHTON TAKES A SHOT AT 'EM lii his sermon Sunday night the 10th inst., Dr. Len G. Broughton, Atlanta, made a sensational at tack on members of the legisla ture, who engaged in a friendly | game; on the convict system ; on the members of the Prison Com mission, Hiid on the ‘‘nenrlicer” of Atlanta. Saturday night a room m the Kimball was raided and five mem bers of the Legislature caught there were allowed to make bond j without the formality of paying j a visit to the police station and j having their names docketed on the records. Names of the members have i been scrupulously guarded. l)r. Broughton demands investi gation by the Legislature . ami a trial of the legislators by the court. Os the Prison Commission he declared that they were a ‘‘set of rimless naughts,” ami that they had not shown themselves compe tent to hold their positions. Speaking of “near beer,” he said Atlanta was full of “nears.” He declared that the only thing that was not “near” was the May or of the city. He asserted that Mayor Joyner could not claim to be even a “near” Mayor, as he was a man who lived in Cobb county and made his living run ning professional btißebnll teams. Those who are willing to com promise with Tom Watson in the matter of presidential electos are not democrats although some of them have probably voted with and affiliated with the Democra tic party. As for the Enterprise, we Yvant nothing, to do with tJVun Watson nor his game of political piracy.—Fitzgerald Enterprise. BE A FARMER Now is the time to get a nice farm and settle down. Farms are divided into two kinds—the aband oned and those that want to be. Having secured your farm proceed to settle on it as gracefully ns possible. To begin with, mort gage your projierty in town ami gather together all your available resources. Much can be done with an abandoned farm if one has money and courage enough. First, re-move all the superfluous rocks. To do this start a rockery. Whenever in walkig over your farm, you notice a bowlder or so loafing around left over from the heartless old glacial period, with nothing on earth to do but to gather moss, pick it up carelessly add it to the rockery, After a while you will get the habit. Then in case you run out of resources, you can with the muscle thus acquired, spend the rest, of your life in a museum, as a strong man. Second: Secue a respectable and even-tempered herd of kine. Kine are largely used to give milk and to furnish models for oil-paint ings. You can also use them to drive to pasture. Driving a herd of kine to pasture is not only splendid exercise—better than gulf —but it also add* to your sense of the beautiful. Third : Keep on hand a stock of liens. These delightful com* (Miltons will l*e a perpetual source of amusement and profit. Ac company tiiem With some hantic leers. As long as they sheer you by their presence, you need no alarm clock. There will naturally occur to every* one, the old germ laden bueket, the green colic ap ple orchard,the malaria due-pond, the hired man who sleeps in the haymow, and the artistic leaks in the roof where the sun comes peeping in at morn—on bright days. i But the t<est thing about a farm is the rest you get. After you've fed the hens, tucked up the kine, sawed wood, unhitched old Dob bin and locked up after the hired man, you can lie down on your s lignum-vitae lied and sleep right i through until nearly 3 a. m.— Success Magazine. ! “Corn in the crib and meat in l the cellar,” is the song down here. THIS MONTGOMERY MONITOK—THUUSbAY* JULY Ik), MW. THE CONVICT PROBLEM. Editor Scaly has done a patri otic service that, is more than Stute wide in showing up the in iquities of the Georgia peniten tiary system, and the careless manner in which the laws and rules have been administered by those charged with that responsi bility. There is no doubt but that the lease or contract system is doomed—and it should be. The question of providing adequate punishment by the State and at same time make the convicts as nearly self supporting as possible js up to the members of the pres ent Legislature, and we do not doubt but that they will meet thatresponsibility inn statesman like and patriotic 110111111*1'. No motive of making the con victs bring in an increase for the school or public roads of tin* state ought, to swerve in the least the members from a humane arrange ment for tin? punishment of those who violate the laws of the stale. If the convicts are to lie worked for a profit, in the name of just ice the profits ought to belong to the widow and orphans left, be hind. In most, instances they are left a charge upon the communi ty in which they live,for tin* state hns taken away the only means of support they had and magnani mously appropriated it, to the pub lic roads or the public schools. The state cannot, confiscate the little home may be left behind and appropriate it to public obli gations. but really there would seem to be about as much justice in it as there is in taking away the main support of (lie family and appropriate the profit, which it seems has been very consider able, to public charities instead of returning at least a part of it to the widow and orphans, to whom by every principle of in heritance and right it, should be long. It is the duty of the state to punish, but does the state also have a right to the revenues pro duced bv the husband and father after the expense of his keep has been paid ? The laws of a groat state should be founded upon the strictest prin ciples ami of equity and just iee.— Blackshear Times. ADMINISTRATOR'S SALR. Georgia—Montgomery County. VYMII )»o sold in said county on the 28th day of July, 1908, be tween the hours of 10 o'clock a. 111. and 4 o’clock p. m. at public outcry at the late residence of Henry A. Joyce, Sr., to the high est bidder for cash, all of the perishable property of said Henry A. Joyce, Sr., embracing bis stock of horses, cattle, hogs, etc. Also the following: One buggy, one ox cart, one sewing inaeiiine, one cotton gin and oik* boiler, oik* pair of scales ami one bale of upland cotton. Saiit sale will be con tinued from day to day until com pleted. YV. It. Mosi.ky, Adr. Estate Henry A. Joyce, Sr. HJ| Georgia School It better etjulp|iee] and orjtanired lit all Urfl department!! than tm before, and pre- UJ L '° "ork in its iiistory. In order to afford tfie young men fl of Georgia high clans tec finical educa j| tion, fifteen free scholarships are assigned to eat li County in the XjState. 1 ake immediate of this opportunity and write for latest catalog, containing all in mgmßßE&UKl formation e'.sary foi prosper live MHHK9 and s< tting foil the ad vantages ol the Geoigia 'lech. A''vanred courses In Mtrhanical, neering, Engineering Chemistry, ■p Chemistry and Architecture. Ex- MjGl tensive and new equipment of BK Shop, Mill, Lihoratoriea, etc. New >2l Library and new Chemical Labora tory. The demand for the School's grad uates is much greater than the supply. Next session opens Sept. 30th. For further information address K. 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VERNON, QA. % * * * V (The Store Whom You Got Full Value for Your Money I’wolvo MohUim in the Year.) **#**********'**♦** notice of incorporation. Georgia—Montgomery Comity. Not.me in hereby givim that than*! will !><• intt'o4|iii*i*il in tl»HH|)|)r<»noli ing Herndon of l li** Ci«*n»rii I A ms4* in - lily of Georgia, conformably to i law an to lli4! publication of thin not Kin, a l>iU incorporating tin 1 town of Glitnwooil, (In., defining corporate liinitu, granting the ( I>r«»|»4*r municipal powerH, mill giv ing such pnv'ili*gcß ami iinniunitii'H , ah aro coiuinoniy grauteil nicer-1 |iorftt<‘d towns in tliia state. Thin; the 4th day of' Juno. l$H)8. not si: for salk. A fi-rooin house, new mid well painted. Good hum, gimlen, etc. Also, SU, iicres ot land in Ml. Vim'iion. All going at u Baiuiain. For prjC4*s and terms see H. J. Ginns or A. B. Hutchkhon, s{-f>-tf Mt. Vernon, Git. Fon Mai.b —A good buggy and Inn ih'hh. I'riee right for a (piu k sale. Curtis Coleman, ts Mt. Vernon, Ga. BOILERS. Do You Need One? Wo aro offering for Immediate Sale the following Horizontal Tabular Boilers: One 12 feet x 4 feet 0 in., TO tubes. One 16 ft. 6-in. x 5 ft. 10-in.. 64 tubes. One 16 feed x 5 feet, 64 tubes. One 16 feet x 4-ft. 2-in., 61- tubes. All lioili-rs Complete with Stick, Water Columns, Front*, etc. See them at plant at Ochwnllkee. All in Good Condition. Hilton & Dodge Lumber Company, Oehwalkee, Ga. 1 QORQO. GOBGO is a Black Stallion, 4 years j; old, 16 bunds high, and weighs I,6ooLbs. jj Will make the sciihoii of this grand Stallion at Stable of Fislmr l.owry, for the year 1808, at || TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS TO INSURE A LIVINO COLT. jll Fisher & Lowry, Soperton. | I I i MONEY TO LOAN ON FIVE YEARS TIME jj % At Seven Per Cent Interest § ! £ On Improved Farm* in Montgomery and adjoining conntfi'h in an'iouiitu of SI,OfJO and over, and at 8 |>er cent, on loan* of N-mm than SI,OOO. NO COMMISSION I or brokerage charged. Expenses frf borrower for ah atruct and ilrawi.,g paper* are small. NO DELAY. Loans promptly Geo. 11. Harris, Attorney, Meltae, Ga. we Fwwwwaatwtawfww m The Montgomery Monitor and the Savannah Semi-Weekly News, one year, $1.75.